Elastic, the company behind the popular open source projects Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana, and commercial plugins Shield, Watcher, and Marvel, today announces a partnership with Kiratech, a leading Italian system integration and cloud provider to deliver search, logging and analytics solutions for businesses in financial services, media, manufacturing, and high tech.

With more than 30 million downloads, Elastic’s products have become the standard for search, analytics and logging services, for companies ranging from startups to large global enterprises like Cisco, eBay, Goldman Sachs, Groupon, Microsoft, Netflix and Yelp, both on-premise and in the cloud. With this partnership, Kiratech will create a regional go to market and services delivery practice focused on Elastic’s offerings for real-time and embedded search; log management; and real-time analytics for any type of data.

“Kiratech has a proven track record of delivering high-value, innovative software solutions to many of the largest companies in the Italian market,” said Morten Schlosser, EMEA Alliances Director of Elastic. “We are excited to partner with Kiratech to help customers successfully adopt our open source and commercial products for their mission critical applications.”

“Today’s businesses require real-time data capabilities across multiple use cases from search, logging, analytics and more,” said Giulio Covassi CEO Kiratech. “Elastic is one of the few companies providing a breadth of technology products and solutions that are both scalable and flexible for our customers to solve their most complex problems.”

About Elastic

Founded in 2012 by the people behind the Elasticsearch and Apache Lucene open source projects, Elastic provides real-time insights and makes massive amounts of structured and unstructured data usable for developers and enterprises. By focusing on scalability, ease-of-use, and ease-of-integration, Elastic’s suite of open-source products (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats) and subscription plugins (Shield, Watcher, Marvel) can be deployed either on-premise or in the cloud with Elastic’s Found offering. To date, these products have achieved more than 30 million cumulative downloads and power many of the world’s leading mobile, social, consumer and mission critical business applications.

Elastic is backed by Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, and NEA with headquarters in Amsterdam and Mountain View, California, and offices and employees around the world. To learn more, visit www.elastic.co.